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 Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Howdy! Some of you subscribed to this blog a long time ago. Are you going to the blog at www.whirlwindmissions.org? Hope so! Here's what I wrote today: Got up early this morning and did a 4 mile run. Still hot. Picked up a special cake for my friend Bob Speer who just got remarried! We saw each other at our monthly manager's meeting at Sheltering Arms in Chamblee. He's the manager of Shallowford Gardens and is a dear friend. Our meeting at lunch revolved around a new clinic that specializes in the uninsured in the area. According to their stats, over 40% of the residents of Atlanta (5.2 million!) are ininsured. I know that's true for most of the immigrants here. I plan on working with them more in the future to help us with Health Fairs in the area. I'm at my office at FBC Doraville now. Just finished my email. I'm headed over to help the kids at Azalea in a moment. Peace. Sunday, April 01, 2007 Hello, my friends! I've had this blog at Xanga for nearly three years now. But guess what! I now post the same info (and I have for several months) on our www.whirlwindmissions.org web site! You can subscribe to the RSS feed from this location: blog.whirlwindmissions.org. I also have an embedded video of the video blog at that web site. So what are you waiting for? Go on over to www.whirlwindmissions.org and join the party!! Thank you Xanga--you've been a good host--But we're going to MY HOUSE NOW! ; ) See you there!! Saturday, March 31, 2007 Ashley had her final event at Springchase this afternoon. They had an Easter Egg hunt and told the story of the resurrection. We also gathered all the remaining gear from the mission to my team coming in on Tuesday can help me move it and scrub the room clean. Went to the bookstore to do more research on improving our web presence. I'm convinced that the Father has given mankind the internet as the ultimate network. It's part of my job to let future partners know how we do what we do. I'm so glad we have my son Jesse to help us accomplish this goal. Finished up my email and calls. Cool stuff on the agenda for next week including opening up a new mission in Duluth with the help of my brother Tito. Edited, compressed and uploaded six new videos to our Mission Video section of our web site: Three parts of the African Prodigal Son and Three parts on Evangelism. One of the new books I'm reading is called "Guerrilla Publicity." One of the concepts is to put as much free material out to the public as possible. I've been doing that for years. But with this "embedded video" concept that Jesse worked out for me, I'm now driven to do a video version of most of my training material that I can "embed" in the written material on the web site. I think that will make the training section much more powerful and effective. Of course it's a lot of work to do a project like that. I've never been scared of work. Peace. Friday, March 30, 2007 Kathy and I worked at Springchase this morning. We transported all of the computers and three 8 foot tables over to our Ethiopian Pastor Milkano's church. It was great to see Milkano and his excitement about how this gear can impact the Ethiopian community for the Lord. Even though it was sad to start clearing out Springchase, it's also a time for new beginnings and that's always exciting! After unloading the gear at Milkano's we went to Kensington Station to deliver the Easter Outreach gear that I had so far. I took grills, charcoal, plates and cups, over $150 of candy, about 600 plastic eggs and a small PA for the party. Things are really shaping up! I still need to pick up drinks and cookies from my partner Todd Harrison and I'm expecting my twisty animal balloons and new pumps to come in on Tuesday. We'll also have events in Lithonia, Norcross and Roswell. I also went by Truth Tabernacle of Praise to drop off some Spanish tracts and Bibles to one of my Pastors--Bobby Akins. He's a great guy. I'm looking forward to helping them reach out into the community. Also dropped off some info to friends at First Baptist Church of Snellville. The President of our board Dr. Carl Barrington said that their mission's director is a terrific guy. I look forward to getting together with them soon. Went to the book store this afternoon. Got a couple of new books on marketing and internet video--two things I'm sharpening skills on. This blog gets over 800 hits a month. I REALLY appreciate you guys for reading and praying for us! That is a BIG reason why we have been so successful. Click on the video too! I went to see The Shooter this afternoon. I liked it a lot. Mark Walburg was great. It's about a Marine special forces sniper. Ran 4 miles when I got home. Just finished up the last of my admin work. Also posted some new stuff on YouTube--the African Prodigal Son. Click on MIssion Videos. It's some of my best work. Peace. Thursday, March 29, 2007 Full speed ahead day, baby! Started out early finished up my newsletters. Got them in the post before noon. Went to Kroger to make the order for the big event at Kensington Station on April 7th. Picked out one of every item I needed, they scan it in, then I tell them how many I need of each item. It'll be ready for me to pick up the morning of April 7th. Mainly I needed to make sure that they have the hotdogs and buns ready. No way they'd have enough for 400 people. Then over to Walmart to buy the candy I need for the event. I picked up $164 worth of sugar sweet goodness. Kids ought to be mighty hyped up after that! Enjoyed lunch with Bennett Ekandem. We talked about one of our new partners, Milkano. He's a Ethiopian pastor in the Clarkston area. We're helping set him up with about 10 computers so he can teach his congregation--plus use it as an outreach tool. Bennett also supplied him with Bibles and chairs. We'll take equipment from Springchase which we'll be moving out of on Friday over there too. Dropped off some paperwork for Jesse at Dekalb Tech for his GED class. His home schooling is coming along really well. Take a look at his work at aeokos.org. He's already programming and some of his stuff is really popular--particularly VoteGrabber. He's a clever lad. I like his TILT section---Things I Learned Today. J and I spent a couple of hours together this evening. He always teaches me something or helps me improve our web site. Ever heard of Google Analytics? It's a site analyzing program. Pretty cool. We average over 100 visitors a day at www.whirlwindmissions.org. This blog gets over 800 views a month. J helped me embed our YouTube video this evening. He taught me how to do it at least. So that way if you want to hear me talk about what's going on rather than just read it all you have to do is push PLAY. So GO for it! After lunch I had a meeting with Amy Turner a leader in the Singles SS class at FBC Duluth. Her class is going to do an Easter Outreach at WestWood apartments. Amy is also the Choir Director for Meadowcreek HS. Many of her students come from the WestWood area. I used to really dig Choir in HS. I went All State in solo/ensemble in Texas. Sure seems like a LONG time ago. But I still like to sing. Also worked with the kids at Azalea. Talked with Jimmy about what his brothers had said about him. He didn't deny anything--just said it was because they "teased him." Still made me really sad. Peace. |
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